All the signs are pointing to spring here in the PNW!
Last year I repotted my hops into larger pots (fear of commitment keeps mefrom planting them in the ground!). I think this was at least part of the reason for my reduced yield - in 2011, I got several pounds of hops, but not even a pound in 2012, despite adding several new varieties. I am hopeful that I might return to higher yields this year!
When folks (homebrew shops, hop farms) start talking about selling rhizomes each year, I start checking my pots... Two weeks ago, I started to see things other than weeds starting to poke their green heads up! So, this past weekend, I weeded the pots (no small task!), and heaped done fertilizer and compost onto each family of new bines... Some of them were already close to 6" tall and looking to grab onto something!
Tomorrow, the plan is to string my twine. Fifteen feet of fun! By now, all of them should be getting talk enough to train to the twine... A few wraps clockwise will get them headed in the right direction! Depending on just how talk they are, I might also be able to leaf them up a bit as well...
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